Vanity case



Patented Oct. 27, 1925.

UNITED. STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL oLARK, or NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, A-ssIsNora TO GORHAM MANUFACTUR-11m COMPANY, or PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, A CORPORATION OF RHODE IsLANn.v

To all whom it. may concern.

Be it known that I, SAMUEL CLARK, a citizen of, the United States,residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of 6 New Jersey,have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Vanity Cases,of'which the following is a specification.

The inyention relates to receptacles adapted to contain face powder andthe like for personal use, and the object of the invention is to providea case having two compartinentsQone adapted to contain powder and theother a rouge compact or similar article, each presented for convenientand independent service, and which shall be light and strong, of largecapacity relatively to its size, easily and economically manufacturedand neat and attractive in appearance.

The invention consists in certain novel 30 features of construction andarrangement :ofparts by which the above objects are attained, to behereinafter described and claimed. The accompanying drawings form a part25 of this specification and show the invention as it has been carriedout in practice.

Figure'l is a plan view of one face of the case, in the closedcondition.

Figure 2'is a similar view of the opposite face.

Figure 3 is an edge view corresponding to Figure 1.

Figure 4 is a diametrical section taken on the line 44 in Figure 1.Figure 5 is a plan view corresponding to Figure 1, with the lid or coverraised. Figure 6 is a plan view corresponding to Figure 2, with the lidor cover raised.

Figure 7 is an edge view corresponding to Figure 3, with both-lidspartly open.

Figure 8 is a diametrical section taken on the line 88 in Figure 5,partly in elevation, and showing both lids open.

Figures 7 and 8, for purposes of illustration show the case in ananomalous condition with the lower lid open.

Similar reference numerals indicate the same parts in all the figures.

The body of the case is composed of two saucer-shaped shells joined atthe peripheries of their rims by an interlocked seam, and each is formedin a single piece by suitable dies. For convenience of description oneVANITY CASE.

Application filed June 26, 1925. Serial 1%. 89,665.

' of the shells, it), will be termed the upper shell and the other, 11,the lower shell.

At the centre of the upper shell 10 is a large circular openingsurrounded by a depending flange 12'having an inwardly extending annularledge 13, and 14 is a lid or cover hinged to the shell 10 at 15 andadapted to fit closelywithin the flange 12 and lie with its outer facesubstantially flush with the upper face of the shell 10.

The rim 16 of a circular concave disk 17 rests upon the ledge 13 beneaththe margin of the lid 14 and has two lugs 18 by which it is pivotallymounted on the ,pintle, not shown, of the lid hinge 15 so that it turnson the same. The inner face of the lid 14 is a circular mirror 19, andthe concaved central portion of the disk 17 is provided withperforations 20 as clearly'shown in Figure 5. I I

The lowershell 11 has a large circular central opening preferablysimilar in size to that of the upper shell 10, surrounded by a flange 21forming with the horizontal diaphragm- 22 which is integral therewith, aclosed recess of the same diameter as the openingQ- The central portionof the diaphragm is depressed as at 23 to provide a shallow centralcavity.

A lid 24 hinged to the shell 11 at v25 fits the large opening in thelatter and like the lid 14 has a mirror 26 on its inner face. The lid 24lies flush with the outer face of the shell 11 so that both faces of thecase are substantially plane and alike except that one may bedifferently ornamented to dis-' tinguish it from the other.

On the edge of each lid, 0 posite its hinge, is a small rounded boss 27a apted to engage yieldingly in correspondin holes 28 in the flanges 12and 21 to hold the lids in the closed condition, and each lid has anoutwardly projecting ear 28 by'which it may be lifted. A similiarprojection 29 on the edge of the disk 17 engaging with the flange 21serves to maintain the disk yieldingly closed, and an inwardlyprojecting finger 30 on its outer face permits its easy release when reuired.

By raising the disk 17 when the lid 14. is open, access is afforded tothe closed space in the interior of the case provided by the diaphragm22, and is designed to receive a supply of face powder, not shown, asufiicient quantity of which sifts through the perforations to chargeapuff or pad, not shown, enclosed between the mirror 19 of the lid 14 andthe disk 17.

In the cavity 23 is received a cake or compact 31 of rouge or the like,removably held by the engagement of its circular margin with the swells32 on the adjacent annular wall of the cavity, see Figure 6, and thespace between the compact 31 and mirror 26 of the lid 24 is adapted toreceive a pad, not shown, for service with such compact.

By providing each lid with a mirror each compartment is complete initself and either one when presented uppermost ofi'ers its contentsconveniently for use in connection with its mirror, thus avoiding thedanger of spilling the contents of a lower compartment due to attemptingto us the contents of both with a single mirror.

Although the case as a whole is comparatively thin the construction andarrangement affords ample space in the compartments for the compact andthe supply of powder with pads for applying each, and by hinging thedisk 17 to the shell 10 it is held against acci dental displacement towhich an unattached sifter is liable. The construction also permits theemployment of substantial hinge connections thus providing sufficientstrength to resist the strains to which the lids are subjected inservice, and by making the shells practically counterparts of each otherand joining them by a peripheral folded seam the cost of manufacture ismaterially reduced and soldered oints avoided.

I claim 1. The vanity case described comprising two dished shells joinedperipherally, each having a circular central opening, a hinged lid oneach of said shells received in each of siich openings,- a mirror on theinner face of each of said lids, and a horizontally disposed diaphragmon one of said shells dividing the interior of said case into two-contpartrnents each closed by one of saidlids.

2. The vanity case described comprising two dished shells joinedperipherally, each having a circular central opening, a hinged lid oneach of said shells received in each of such openings, and a mirror onthe inner face of each of said lids, one of'said shells having adepending flange formed integral therewith and surrounding the openingtherein, the other of said shells having a diaphragm formed integrallytherewith, extending across the opening therein and having a centralcavity. A

The vanity case described comprising two dished shells joinedperipherally, each having a circular central opening, a'hin'ged lidonearh of said shells received in each of such openings, and a mirror onthe inner face of each of said lids, one of said shells having adepending flange formed integrally therewith and surrounding the openingtherein and having an annular ledge, a perforated disk hinged to saidshelland seated on said ledge, the other of said shells having adiaphragmformed'integrally' therewith, extending across the openingtherein and having a central cavity, and means for holding said lids anddisk yieldingly closed.

In testimony that I claim the invention above set forth I affix mysignature hereto.

SAMUEL CLARK.

